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Jaime Semprún
Jaime Semprún (26 July 1947 – 3 August 2010) was a French essayist and translator. He was born and died in Paris. Biography The son of Jorge Semprún and nephew of the writer Carlos Semprún, Jaime Semprún was close to the film director Philippe Garrel – he appeared in his movie, '' Le Lit de la Vierge'', 1970 along with Zouzou and Valérie Lagrange – and made a short movie himself, ''Le Meurtre du père'' (1968), and a feature-length movie, ''La Sainte Famille'' (1968), he then turned his interest towards social issues and the Situationist International. He contributed articles to ''L'Assommoir'' edited by Roger Langlais, he published two essays for the Champ libre editions during the 1970s : ''Social War in Portugal'' and ''Précis de récupération''. In 1980 Semprún published ''La Nucléarisation du monde'', an essay in which he denounced the evils of nuclear power. Jaime Semprún was then at the origin of the creation of the Post-Situationist group and journal ''Enc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Semprún
Jorge Semprún Maura (; 10 December 1923 – 7 June 2011) was a Spanish writer and politician who lived in France most of his life and wrote primarily in French. From 1953 to 1962, during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, Semprún lived clandestinely in Spain working as an organizer for the exiled Communist Party of Spain, but was expelled from the party in 1964. After the death of Franco and change to a democratic government, he served as Minister of Culture in Spain's socialist government from 1988 to 1991. He was a screenwriter for two successive films by the Greek director Costa-Gavras, '' Z'' (1969) and '' The Confession'' (1970), which dealt with the theme of persecution by governments. For his work on the films '' The War Is Over'' (1966) and '' Z'' (1969) Semprún was nominated for the Academy Award. In 1996, he became the first non-French author elected to the ''Académie Goncourt'', which awards an annual literary prize. He won the 1997 Jerusalem Prize, and the 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |